Biden: The “bad guys” don’t live in Iraq

posted at 9:46 pm on July 15, 2008 by Allahpundit

Biden, the chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, also criticized McCain for putting too much emphasis on Iraq.

“If John wants to know where the bad guys live, come back with me to Afghanistan,” Biden said. “We know where they reside. And it’s not in Iraq.”

So saith the Democrats’ supreme foreign policy expert and quite possibly our next Secretary of State, a guy who (a) used to advocate a “soft partition” of Iraq in the knowledge that the surge would never work; (b) previously called for sending U.S. troops into Darfur, presumably on the theory that “the bad guys” live there; and (c) even within the parameters of his own impoverished view that the “bad guys” encompass no one outside Osama’s inner circle still manages to miss the fact that, yes indeed, some of the bad guys have been known to turn up in Iraq from time to time. See Dean Barnett for a longer response to this idiocy, which raises the left’s visceral discomfort with the idea of jihadist elements in Iraq having anything to do with Al Qaeda to almost Trutheresque proportions. Exit question: Biden does realize, doesn’t he, that the “bad guys” don’t live in Afghanistan either?

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In keeping with this morning’s thread about late-night talk show writers having nothing to joke about Obama because there’s nothing “amusing or buffoonish” about him, Heaven-forbid he choose a guy with hair-plugs and bright white porcelain veneers as his running mate. I mean, there’s just no material there!

I love what “The Great One” Mark Levin calls Biden: “Plugs.”
This guy is such an idiot.
At first Biden and the liberals declared Iraq a haven for terrorists and declared the war lost. Now, since we are succeeding in Iraq, these detestable liberals want to garner attention away from Iraq, to draw on Afghanistan for politics rather than for sincere worries for the military and the situation there. Instead of doing their jobs now in helping our men and women there, they are trying to earn voters for Obama and the libs by politicizing Afghanistan. Detestable politicians.

Biden does realize, doesn’t he, that the “bad guys” don’t live in Afghanistan either?

Most of the bad guys, those who have killed the most Americans, live in the United States. They don’t come from Iraq or Afghanistan, but Mexico.

Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens [now isn't that a big surprise!], a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That’s [another] 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.

He’s right, they don’t ‘live’ in Iraq, they DIE in Iraq. It’s the battlefield of OUR choosing and they came in by the thousands to fight armed American Soldiers instead of trying to come here to kill defenseless women and children. And guess what? It worked, we won, and they died by the bushel.

New tactics have protected the Iraqi population, and the Sunni tribes have rejected Al Qaeda — greatly weakening its effectiveness….

After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces.

Is Biden attempting to claim that Al Qaeda doesn’t qualify as “bad guys” or does he have a disconnect with Obama?

Joe Biden is one of these “been-in-the-Senate-way-too-long/legend-in-his-own-mind” kind of politicos that has yet to have one thing to say on anything that could even remotely be considered to be intelligent. The man has been, was, and still is a loudmouth buffoon who will tote the party line regardless of how hairbrained stupid it is. His recent blatherings on where the real “bad guys” are is a clear-cut example of just how out of touch the man is. I would be willing to bet he never asked one intelligence expert anything on this subject. This idiotic statement he made is the product of his own assumption, and nothing more than that!

I mean MB4 if you just want to talk straight up murder, most Americans are killed by other Americans.Maybe we should invade ourselves. But since every discussion with you ends up being about Mexico, Mexicans, whatever..I guess it is too much to get through one whole thread on Biden and Afghanistan and Iraq without a lecture on who the real enemy is.

What’s wrong with sending troops to Darfur? I don’t think a lack of volunteers is a problem. With all the resounding support for such an act among the left, liberals would be tripping over each other on the way to the army recruiting offices to participate.

No grounds troops, they’re too busy right now, but I’d love to see the Air Force wipe out the janjaweed in one pass.

… liberals would be tripping over each other on the way to the army recruiting offices to participate. – Darth

No way. Libs only talk, but when it comes to actually doing something, no freakin’ way. Especially not MILITARY service. Besides, we wanna WIN wars, an Army full of leftist dweebs would be a surefire way to lose.

No way. Libs only talk, but when it comes to actually doing something, no freakin’ way. Especially not MILITARY service. Besides, we wanna WIN wars, an Army full of leftist dweebs would be a surefire way to lose.

“This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world, and this is a guy who is in every way possible seeking weapons of mass destruction.”

“I think he has anthrax. I have not seen any evidence that he has smallpox, but you hear them say, Tim (Russert), is the last smallpox outbreak in the world was in Iraq; ergo, he may have a strain.”

“We know he continues to attempt to gain access to additional capability, including nuclear capability.”

“First of all, we don’t know exactly what he has. It’s been five years since inspectors have been in there, number one. Number two, it is clear that he has residual of chemical weapons and biological weapons, number one.”

Greasy Joe supported every single step by Bush in the aftermath of 9-11 and the runup to war in Iraq, including the final vote to invade. As the boys on SCORE in Chicago like to ask “Joe, who you crappin’?”

Last week the ‘foremost expert’ on foreign policy in testimony regarding Iran also maintained that Shia & Sunni’s hate each other and would never cooperate on anything, let alone on killing the enemy Americans which made me chuckle.. That puts him squarely in never never land with Micheal Jackson. Of course he knows the reality, but he’s a huge proponent of the inconvenient truth mentality, if it is inconvenient – you ‘alter’ the truth..

I watch Biden lecturing all the time on the sen foreign relations com. and he is a perfect fit for Obama, they both are propagandists, that’s why many on the left who are the same adore them both so much! Biden literally twists words around to alter meaning on a regular basis, while having full knowledge of the real meaning behind them which is opposite of his implication – He does it to push political agenda while sitting on one of the most senior & important committees around, he would propose he is clever, I call it lying.

He’s right, they don’t ‘live’ in Iraq, they DIE in Iraq. It’s the battlefield of OUR choosing and they came in by the thousands to fight armed American Soldiers instead of trying to come here to kill defenseless women and children. And guess what? It worked, we won, and they died by the bushel.

It is going to be hard for these democratic losers to whine their way out of the lies and distortions they have always propagated. They’ll probably succeed because the truth to democrats is not what the facts determine, but what they are told to believe. The dumbing of America has increased the ranks of the dims.

Poor Biden. His personality is good and he seems like fun. Too bad he is so ate up with the dumb ass.

I have been watching him for years, and he is ver animated. At one point, I thought he was a good guy, until the plagerism incident. After that I paid more attention to his substance and less to his style, and learned the real score on him.

He is not the sharpest tool in the shed, and that flaw can not be corrected.